04/04/2025
A Historical Perspective on NATO, Russia, and Western Interventionism
Europe in general—and the UK in particular—continue to suffer from a deep-rooted Russo- phobia. To this day, no solid evidence has been provided by President Biden or any Western leader to support claims of Russian interference in European affairs or in Donald Trump’s first presidential election.
Historically, Kyiv was the capital of ancient Russia. Crimea, meanwhile, was handed over to Ukraine by Nikita Khrushchev due to his Ukrainian heritage. Even Mikhail Gorbachev had Ukrainian roots as he had some assignments during Khrushchev. Following the collapse of the USSR in 1991, the U.S.-led NATO alliance began to unilaterally expand, bully, invade, and orchestrate CIA-backed coups and regime changes around the world. According to a report by a group of professors led by Stephanie Stewall at the Brown University, the U.S. has engaged in regime changes in 89 countries since then.
In the early post-Soviet years, Russia was governed by Boris Yeltsin—a weak and ineffectual leader, often ridiculed for his drunken behavior. Under his leadership, the country fell into disarray. Key public sector enterprises were sold off for peanuts, often to oligarchs with close ties to the West. Many of these individuals, particularly of Jewish background, took their money and moved to Germany, Finland, the U.S., and possibly even to France.
When Michael Gorbachev agreed to German unification, it was on the condition that NATO would not expand eastward. Later, Western leaders backed away from this commitment, claiming there was no formal written agreement.
Fast forward to 2008: at the NATO summit in Bucharest, the alliance declared that both Ukraine and Georgia would one day become members—yet provided no roadmap. Despite repeated warnings from President Putin, NATO kept pushing eastward. Five countries joined first, followed by seven more that encircled Russia. The only remaining access point for Russia to the rest of Europe was through Ukraine—a border stretching over 2,000 kilometers.
In 2014, NATO’s involvement in Ukraine escalated after the Maidan coup, widely viewed as U.S.-supported. This further inflamed tensions. Then came, the Minsk Agreements, signed by France’s President Macron and Germany’s Chancellor Merkel, which were supposed to de-escalate the situation. However, in 2022, both leaders admitted their real aim was to buy time to arm Ukraine and prepare for conflict—a clear act of bad faith.
In April 2022, during peace talks in Istanbul, an agreement was nearly reached to end the conflict. However, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson flew to Kyiv on the orders of Washington to persuade President Zelensky not to sign the deal—prolonging the war unnecessarily.
Putin’s requests to address Russia’s security concerns were consistently ignored by the West. Left with no diplomatic path, he was forced to act to secure Russia's sovereignty—no longer the weak state it was in the 1990s.
NATO’s track record speaks volumes: from the bombing and dismantling of Yugoslavia with the support of far-right groups, to the 1990 invasion of Iraq, the 2001 war in Afghanistan, and the 2003 re-invasion of Iraq that led to the deaths of over half a million civilians. The West also backed extremist groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS in Syria, and orchestrated the brutal killing of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi.
This cycle of regime change and destruction was not going to be allowed to continue—at least not without resistance. Of course, the West may have the last word in the media, but perhaps some of us will have the last laugh when history writes its final verdict.
